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As Moldovan officials sit down to plan out the latest chapter in their country's 20-year experiment with democracy, they won't be alone. Starting Oct. 16, they can log in to a web community geared for leaders just like like them. Called the Leaders E...

Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer at the White House, gave the audience at the 2012 Social Good Summit on Saturday a high-energy lesson in the importance of making government data more useful and available to anyone. Park, who previously served as ...

Technology issues might not be the most pressing topic facing Paul Ryan -- Mitt Romney's running mate -- as he campaigns for the White House. In fact, given the state of the economy and the other high-level issues facing the country, it’s unlikely th...

In a partial victory for political transparency advocates, major television stations must begin uploading information on the amount spent by candidates and outside groups on political advertisements to a publicly accessible Federal Communications Com...

Palo Alto, Calif., is already well known as a global center of technology innovation, with companies from Google to Facebook having once called it home. However, the city itself hasn't fully embraced technology's potential to disrupt local government...

New York City is looking to double down on its status as a technology-first metropolis as city officials announced this week five new initiatives with the goal of expanding New York's booming tech sector. The initiatives, introduced by Mayor Michael ...

The United States has topped Google's list of user data requests for the fourth six-month period in a row, according to Google's Transparency Report. Google complied with 93% of the United States' 6,321 requests for information made from July through...

Are competitions and crowdsourcing the path to bringing government into the 21st century? The White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy certainly thinks so. It hosted an event this week to discuss prize-based contests and recognize succes...

The United Nations organization which oversees international telecommunications practices is meeting this December for a conference that could significantly affect the global Internet. Many of the proposals up for discussion have been shrouded in sec...

The White House has unveiled its plan to bring governance into the mobile-centric twenty-first century. Dubbed the "Roadmap for a Digital Government," the plan has two central tenets. First, It tasks federal agencies with giving citizens easier acces...

NASA collects and publishes thousands of data points every month: images of lunar craters, spectrum analysis of far-away stars, rocket telemetry and so on. Now, the space agency wants to create apps that let people do a variety of things with those d...

NASA has revamped its two-year-old Open Government Plan with a new website and a commitment to building a community-focused online architecture, featuring new tools for data sharing and open source development. The new Open Government Plan, "Flagship...

"Citizen Cosponsor," a new platform from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), lets Facebook users show their support of a particular Congressional bill with the click of a mouse. Once a user "cosponsors" a bill, they receive periodic updates on...

During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, there were a number of projects (and subsequent IPOs) dedicated to making local government in the U.S. more accessible and more transparent. Unfortunately, with the bust of said IPOs, efforts for more open g...

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